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Keep Pikachu & Piplup Apart!

After leaving a Pok&#233;mon Centre, Pikachu & Piplup start to act strangely and begin showing uncontrollable affection for eachother, despite their same gender. After failing to seperate them, they return to the Pok&#233;mon Centre to find that it is happening to others. However, they soon find that Team Rocket is partially behind this situation. Will they be able to stop it from occuring?

In any case, Arcanine, it was confirmed long ago for both of their genders, and I've reported you, Wolvesarefunny for random spam.

The episode was...boring. I didn't enjoy it that much. Interesting choice of plot, I suppose, but I think it could have been more...exciting. I suppose it's because I'm waiting for the next few episodes, so this became slightly lacklustre for me.

Iota

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The episode was...boring. I didn't enjoy it that much. Interesting choice of plot, I suppose, but I think it could have been more...exciting. I suppose it's because I'm waiting for the next few episodes, so this became slightly lacklustre for me.

Iota

You are not the only one who felt that way.
Episode was awfully "quiet" and nothing much was going on.

Yep, this wasn't that much of a interesting episode at all. The whole majority of the episode being of Pikachu and Piplup's strange attraction over each other, hugging and hearts in eyes. It also happened to other Pokemon too, but it mostly consisted over Pikachu/Piplup and Ash and Hikari/Dawn trying to pull them away. Good thing the next episodes are going to be better than what this was.

Apparently the idea was to make two terrible episodes right before the Galactic finale.

I guess its their way of making the Galactic finale seem better? lol.

Yeah I doubt there's any other sane explanation to THIS. Lol. The love machine was just, um... a mistake. :<
I mean the episode was only saved from a rating of 1/10 when Ash used Staraptor and all. Also from the actions of Quagsire and Magnemite. Anyhow for me this episode was a mere 5/10.

It had the chance to be a hilarious episode, but somehow, the staff managed to botch this one so much that only the instant when Pikachu and Piplup threw themselves at each other for the first time was funny - and that instant lasted about ten seconds.

Firstly, Shimura's seriously starting to slack off again with most characters - especially the main trio - looking extremely sloppily-drawn.

What was far worse, though, was the terribly lame script.
The group's reaction to the sudden attraction between Pikachu and Piplup wasn't even remotely amusing. Potential exaggerated, anime-style expressions of gobsmacked-ness had to clear the way for the ever-so-redundant, standard reactions of surprise, slight shock and worry. Wow, hilarious. Pikachu and Piplup could've collapsed with a fever and it wouldn't have made a difference.

It didn't get any better when Professor Kodama turned out to be a boring-as-cardboard researcher with little spark. I don't care how many people are annoyed with the crazy professor stereotype - it would've certainly fit in better than another personification of "I-had-good-intentions-but-it-didn't-work-out-the-way-it-was-supposed-to" that would ultimately be met with understanding from everyone.

Also, everything reeked of wasted opportunities to spice up the craziness even more. Buizel somehow getting involved and throwing itself at Pikachu as well, creating an awkward triangle; war ensues. Buneary appearing and being mortified at the indecent display of a not-so-endearing Pikachu.

The entire story had too much analytics and too little WTF. If they want to do a fun plot of this caliber, they can't just rely on a single core idea carrying the entire episode by itself and continually getting laughs. It needs chaos and chain reactions of funny occurrences - it almost seemed to me as if they were afraid of not making sense in the end, but isn't that a pretty trivial thing to worry about in a crackpot story?

Anyway, as a result, everything and everyone in this episode was way too matter-of-fact and insistent on giving explanations. Who on earth cares about the why? This is crack. Crack doesn't need justifications. Crack should plow its way through the plot with its buddies, screwball comedy and meaningless hurly-burly, without giving a damn about boring things like reason.

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Boring episode was boring. The fact that I was able to see the first and last parts and not miss a single important thing is depressing.

While I do agree with an above poster that things would have been more interesting had Buizel been thrown into the mix, resulting in a love pyramid or something, I disagree that what the episode needed was a bunch of tomfoolery. I think it would've gone very well to look into the individual characters of some Pokemon (how would Buizel act when he's in love, even when that love is caused by an outside force?) You can be entertaining and make sense at the same time.

This was another one of those episodes that you really don't need to see (dubbed) to get an idea of what's going on. Unfortunately just seeing the pics was more than enough for me to dislike this episode. I would love to have some of whatever the creators of this episode are on/smoking/injecting/sniffing because I don't think I'd ever get off that high.

So I guess I was partially right. Did the scientist make this machine just to make his Magnemite and Quagsire get along better? That why it only seemed to affect Electric types and Water types?

The only good thing about the episode, or should I say cute, was the pic of Marill and Luxio.

I got to say, it would be pretty scary if you saw so many people(or pokemon) with heart eyes, hugging each other like zombies. I would be terrified.

One brave soul should watch the show from the beginning and make a post to list all the definitive, unquestionable pokemon fillers that are just a waste of time since the first episode to this day, that would be good!

^_^; Hi again, everyone. I do apologise for posting before when I hadn't seen the episode. I neglected to read the specific rules for episode discussions, and I'm sorry.
Moving right along, I have seen the episode now, and I rather enjoyed it. I'd certainly say that it's an episode worth watching at least once, if only for the lulz.
I probably wouldn't want to watch it again though, except maybe when it's dubbed. I reckon it may be even more amusing when I understand fully what the characters are saying, not to mention the fact that I really want to know what Brock's umbrella show meant XD

Would I be right in thinking that the guy created the machine so that Quagsire & Magnemite would get along, but because they were dual types it didn't affect them?

I really loved the ridiculously romantic music that played when Pochama and Pikachu were snuggling. That was really adorable, and I hope the dubbers keep it in! =3

Well, I found it amusing and fun, and I hope the next few episodes are awesome like everyone says they should be! ^_^

This was another one of those episodes that you really don't need to see (dubbed) to get an idea of what's going on. Unfortunately just seeing the pics was more than enough for me to dislike this episode. I would love to have some of whatever the creators of this episode are on/smoking/injecting/sniffing because I don't think I'd ever get off that high.

I'm still seeing it anyways. Hell, I'm watching it right now in Japanese because I found a source. Eh, it's alright. I don't entirely get what's going on, but it seems to only enhance the... comedy? Even I'm pulling "wft" every now and again here.

So I guess I was partially right. Did the scientist make this machine just to make his Magnemite and Quagsire get along better? That why it only seemed to affect Electric types and Water types?

Heh, I didn't catch that. That explains quite a bit actually.

The only good thing about the episode, or should I say cute, was the pic of Marill and Luxio.

Pretty much.

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